Re: Logfiles above 2G

On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 01:42 +0200, Andreas Fink wrote:
> But if I open the file with fopen64, then it works. Rather strange as  
> Linux seems to be the only OS where this has been done like that.

There's several reasons why maintainers of GNU C Library have chosen
this approach. Obviously, using 64 bits I/O functions on a 32 bits
system is slightly slower and also will consume more memory.

Noting that the C library is designed to be used by everybody, including
applications that deal with thousands of files in different estimated
sizes (remember squid?), using 64bits I/O is optional, and can be
enabled easily at compile time.

I'd second this.
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Enver

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